Fans on their way to the Eagles/Buccaneers game on Sunday
were not happy to see Michael Vick protestors with "Power to the
Puppies" and "Stop. Think. Boycott." signs outside Lincoln
Financial Field in Philadelphia.

"Vick is the best" and "I hate dogs... I am
glad Vick killed them," some yelled as they pushed and shoved the sign
holders and spilled Coke on their signs.

Others told the protestors to get a life and that Vick's
dogfighting is over and he deserves a "second chance."

But back in Chicago, the saga of dog fighting and especially
its influence on children is far from over.

On the same day the nation watched a video of the beating
death of 16-year-old Derrion Albert in Chicago, Cook County sheriff deputies
were watching a video of an animal being burned to death on the cell phone of a man arrested the same day in connection with a dogfighting
operation run at a suburban Chicago day care center.

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Martez Anderson, 38, Lance Webb, 27 and Charles Sutton, 42,
were arrested in the day care raid but Anderson was only charged with a
misdemeanor until police viewed the immolation video--upgrading the charge to
felony dogfighting. Investigators are examining the video for links to the
three arrested men.

The dogfighting operation allegedly run at the day care
center in suburban Maywood sounds like an open secret.

"They would take the dogs in the garage during the day
and you could hear them fighting," Guadalupe Castro, 40, who lives on the
same block as the day care center told the Chicago Tribune. "I was scared
because sometimes the dogs would get loose and run down the street."

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Dogs remained tied to poles where they would bark and try to
attack each other, a woman from the neighborhood who was afraid to give her
name told the Tribune.

When arresting officers arrived children "were playing
on a swing set just 10 feet away from a vicious fighting dog and blood-stained
floors," said Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart. Officers found syringes,
medication, bite sticks and harnesses in the garage. Ten children were present
at the day care center.

Martha Rosenberg is an award-winning investigative public health reporter who covers the food, drug and gun industries. Her first book, Born With A Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks and Hacks Pimp The Public Health, is distributed by Random (more...)